VOCABULARY ROUNDUP

This is the act of saving seeds and growing plants and vegetables that the Woodland Indians started.

TERM 1

HORTICULTURE

This spear like object was created by the Paleo Indians to hunt and kill food

Term 2

ATLATL

This is a man made object such as an arrowhead, a shovel, or a piece of pottery.

Term 3

ARTIFACT

This type of scientist deals with “things” to help learn about the past

Term 4

ARCHAEOLOGIST

This is the frozen land bridge that connected Asia and what is today North America that the first prehistoric people walked over.

Term 5

BERING LAND BRIDGE

This is the telling of family stories and history from one generation to the next (usually before people wrote things down)

Term 6

ORAL HISTORY

This is what makes up a person’s belief system/ ways of doing things that is shared with others and examples are their food, music, religion, and language.

Term 7

CULTURE

THIS IS A NATURAL OBJECT THAT WAS ONCE LIVING, SUCH AS TEETH OR BONES.

TERM 8

ECOFACT/ FOSSIL

THIS TYPE OF SCIENTIST STUDIES CULTURE TO “PAINT A PICTURE OF THE PAST”

ANTHROPOLOGIST

WHAT IS THE TIME BEFORE WRITTEN RECORDS KEPT?

EXTRA

PREHISTORY

IN ORDER, WHAT ARE THE 4 PREHISTORIC INDIAN GROUPS IN GEORGIA?

P.A.W.M.

PALEO, ARCHAIC, WOODLAND, MISSISSIPPIAN